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MIKE NORVELL's JOB on the LINE: Can FSU Reach 8 WINS?! · FSU Football: Doak Talk

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  Speaker 1: We spoke about the schedule, right? What does that mean
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  Speaker 1: for Mike Norvell and his job and that type of deal?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: That's the burning question that everybody wants to know, right?
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  Speaker 1: And there's been news coming out saying that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Florida State will keep him or they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to fire him and this, that, and third. Guys, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same news. It's the same thing. This isn't anything new, right?
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  Speaker 1: This is the same news we knew in June, July.
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  Speaker 1: pretty much preseason, all offseason, going into the season, that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no shit. It's a no-burner that the administration don't want
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  Speaker 1: to fire Mike Novell. That's not surprising. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to fire Mike Novell. They don't want to have to
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  Speaker 1: pay him X amount of money for the buyout, this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and the third. They don't want to be on the
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  Speaker 1: hook for that type of money if it doesn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they don't. Now, if you keep losing this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and the third, and the Romans keep getting louder and louder,
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  Speaker 1: It is to a point to where it's undeniable that
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  Speaker 1: you have to fire him, right? But no, don't get
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  Speaker 1: it twisted. Do they want to fire Mike Novell? No.
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  Speaker 1: The running thought is that Mike Novell would get himself fired.
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  Speaker 1: I told you guys preseason I felt like eight wins
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  Speaker 1: was the measuring stick if he wins. If he gets
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  Speaker 1: to eight wins, I feel like his job would have
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  Speaker 1: been saved preseason. I don't think you could fire him
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  Speaker 1: for winning eight games. Well, you could, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it would be In their eyes, I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like that would be a justifiable fire to win eight games.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. In the administration's eyes, they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't do it based upon eight wins. Seven wins, I
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  Speaker 1: said it could get sticky and dicey depending on how
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  Speaker 1: the seven wins look. You play competitive, beat a Florida, Miami,
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  Speaker 1: or Clemson, something along those lines, or Alabama, which you have.
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  Speaker 1: You already lost to Alabama, so Florida, Miami, or Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: Then it'll be a conversation on possibly. But even then,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that would be a little bit murky.
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  Speaker 1: You win two games, five games, and seven. I think
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  Speaker 1: they are, in my opinion, but again, I'm not making
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  Speaker 1: a decision. I said it's preseason as well. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: a discussion depending on how those seven look. But I
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  Speaker 1: would probably end things like that. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: eight plus, he's good to go. Again, that has been
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  Speaker 1: a thought since preseason. Now, we... And the reason the
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  Speaker 1: Rumbles got so big, right, because we saw New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: State 34-17 or some shit like that. We saw New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico State. We saw SMU, how winnable that game was.
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  Speaker 1: We felt like SMU wasn't that good. So based upon
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  Speaker 1: those factors and how the rest of the early teams,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Louisville, how Louisville looked, and of course Miami
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  Speaker 1: and how Virginia looked against it. So we saw those
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  Speaker 1: first couple games and then how the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: schedule plays, like, oh, there's no way in hell, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he win seven, eight games. This is a three, four,
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  Speaker 1: five-win team. Some people say, you know, only guaranteed win,
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  Speaker 1: which I can understand based upon what we saw was
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico stayed in Central Arkansas. And you pick two
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  Speaker 1: for four wins. So that was the narrative, right? So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you win four wins, you win five, you
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  Speaker 1: win three, six, 100% Mike Novell gets fired. So let's
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  Speaker 1: put this shit in perspective and be honest. It's not
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  Speaker 1: new news. Nothing is new. It's just what the performances
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  Speaker 1: are and what we've seen. We saw early in the
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  Speaker 1: season how bad things looked, and we felt like there's
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  Speaker 1: no way in hell they could get to eight based
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  Speaker 1: upon how the remainder of the teams look. We saw
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  Speaker 1: Florida looking good early in the season. Now that shit
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  Speaker 1: looks iffy. So what I'm saying is the schedule, all
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  Speaker 1: this shit is fluid pretty much. It's all fluid. I'm
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  Speaker 1: never going to root for FSU to lose anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So if he gets to eight, that's a conversation that
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  Speaker 1: those guys would have to have. But I just want
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  Speaker 1: to put that in perspective as far as what things
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  Speaker 1: look like for Mike Norvell in Florida as far as
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  Speaker 1: his job security to stay in third. There's no new
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  Speaker 1: information coming out over the administration. The mayor thinking about
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  Speaker 1: keeping him now or he gets this boost, whatever, whatever, whatever. No, man,
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  Speaker 1: these people never wanted to fucking fire him. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: let's be honest. They never wanted to fire him. They
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  Speaker 1: absolutely wanted to work out. In a perfect world, they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to work out. So this is new information. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted to work out. But folks, people thought that there's
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  Speaker 1: no way it could work out. And it was just
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  Speaker 1: a non-avoidable situation of a foregone conclusion that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to get fired. He was going to let the
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  Speaker 1: games play out and he'll fire himself. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how the rest of the schedule plays out. But again,
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  Speaker 1: if he wins eight I don't think he would. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they would make a decision to pull the
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  Speaker 1: plug on Mike Norvell. Seven, we have a conversation depending
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  Speaker 1: on how that looks. Me personally, I would move on
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  Speaker 1: from seven, but I'm not making those decisions. But again,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't new information. This isn't new information. We always
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  Speaker 1: feel like just how the preseason looked, how the first
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  Speaker 1: few games looked, and how the remaining of the schedule
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  Speaker 1: looked within those first few games. People put two and
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  Speaker 1: two together and felt like we couldn't get to this
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't get to that. The only people that kind
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  Speaker 1: of believe are the guys in those locker rooms, inside
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, and they're still performing this down the third.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if that belief is still true because, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's Virginia. I felt like they were winning this game.
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  Speaker 1: I picked FSU to win this game. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: they were winning this fashion and dominate those guys like that,
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  Speaker 1: but I felt like they were winning. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: the schedule, the rest of these games is what kind
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  Speaker 1: of had my attention as far as what we'll be
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  Speaker 1: looking at moving forward as far as his tenure, right?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the rest of these three games right
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  Speaker 1: here will pretty much tell the story. We're about to
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  Speaker 1: find out. Again, we're about to find out. But just
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  Speaker 1: looking at how it plays out, man, Louisville looks beatable. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we struggle on the road. We're like Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Hyde when it comes to playing on the road versus
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  Speaker 1: playing away. But Louisville looks pretty damn beatable. Friday nights
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  Speaker 1: do scare me. But again, Louisville looks pretty beatable. I
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  Speaker 1: think Miami would be an L. Clemson definitely looks beatable,
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  Speaker 1: especially that offense. Boston College, role game, still a little beatable.
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh are complete. Well, we'll see, but I believe they'll
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  Speaker 1: be a completely different team without Mason, who I think
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  Speaker 1: is one of the better quarterbacks in the ACC. Then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you have NC State, and you have the
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  Speaker 1: Florida Gators, who they're clearly not a top-ten team. Clearly not.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how the remainder of the schedule play out. Again,
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  Speaker 1: just we'll see. No need to– I know everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: breaking news, you know, Every day, this, that, and the third.
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  Speaker 1: Just let the shit play out. Just relax. Let it
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  Speaker 1: play out. The schedule will take care of itself one
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  Speaker 1: way or another. That's my take on that. I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to address that and say, hey, man, there's no
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  Speaker 1: new information as far as, oh, they want to keep
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  Speaker 1: Martin O'Reilly and things like that. They always want to
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  Speaker 1: keep Martin O'Reilly. Always. People just felt like it would
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  Speaker 1: have been too much of a tall task for Martin
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  Speaker 1: O'Reilly to win a certain amount of games to avoid that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess a certain amount of games to make their
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  Speaker 1: wishes come true and keep him. Everybody thought he would
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  Speaker 1: fall short and make the rumble so loud to his
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  Speaker 1: unavoidable to where you got to pull the plug. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how things play out.